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Brown Is Down Because Taxes Are Up

By

Rupert Darwall

Updated June 13, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

London

As Warren Buffett observed, you only learn who's been swimming naked when the tide has gone out. Gordon Brown knows the feeling. Never before has a British prime minister's poll rating fallen so low so quickly.

The message for the Labour Party is stark. A year after pushing out of office their most successful election winner ever,...